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Extatosoma tiaratum, commonly known as the spiny leaf insect, the giant prickly stick insect, [2] Macleay's spectre, [3] or the Australian walking stick, is a large ...
Extatosoma [1] is a genus of phasmids, in the monotypic subfamily Extatosomatinae, with two species. One occurs in Australia , one in New Guinea . Both have a colour morph imitating leaves, and one imitating lichen.
The life cycle of the stick insect begins when the female deposits her eggs through one of these methods of oviposition: she will either flick her egg to the ground by a movement of the ovipositor or her entire abdomen, carefully place the eggs in the axils of the host plant, bury them in small pits in the soil, or stick the eggs to a substrate ...
The Phasmatidae are a family of the stick insects (order Phasmatodea).They belong to the superfamily Anareolatae of suborder Verophasmatodea. [1]Like many of their relatives, the Phasmatidae are capable of regenerating limbs and commonly reproduce by parthenogenesis.
Newly hatched Extatosoma tiaratum stick insects mimic these ants to avoid predation. [ 5 ] Workers of Leptomyrmex can be easily recognized by elongate antennal scapes which surpass the posterior margin of the head by more than one half their length, a medially notched hypostoma, mandibles with 7–15 teeth and 5–12 denticles, and a laterally ...
E. tiaratum actively sways back and forth or side to side when disturbed or when there is a gust of wind, with a frequency distribution like foliage rustling in the wind. This behaviour may represent motion crypsis, preventing detection by predators, or motion masquerade, promoting misclassification (as something other than prey), or a ...
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Froggatt’s son John Lewis Froggatt, also an entomologist. In Froggatt’s last years he did much writing on popular science in the Sydney Morning Herald, in 1933 his The Insect Book, the first of a series of elementary "Nature Books" for children, was published at Sydney, and in 1935 Australian Spiders and Their Allies appeared.